Latest Church Bulletin
9/1/24
St. Catherine Orthodox Church
433 Liberty St.
Hagerstown, MD 21740
240-347-2333
www.saintcatherineorthodoxchurch.org
Schedule: Pastor:
Saturday, 6:30 PM—Vespers V. Rev. Dennis Buck
Sunday, 10 AM—Divine Liturgy 825 Harrington Rd.
11:30 AM—Church School Rockville, MD 20852
Confessions Saturday evening or by appointment h) 301-424-7730; c) 202-878-2854
Festal: Sunday, 9 AM—Divine Liturgy [email protected]
Friday, 7:30 PM—Vespers
Saturday, 9/14—Divine Liturgy
Today is 10th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 1. Church New Year. Today we also commemorate St. Simeon the Stylite and his mother, Martha.
TROPARIA (T. 1)-- When the stone had been sealed by the Jews,/ while the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure Body,/ Thou didst rise on the third day, O Savior,/ granting Life to the world./ The powers of heaven therefore cried to Thee, O Giver of Life,/ “Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ!/ Glory to Thy Kingdom!/ Glory to Thy dispensation, O Thou Who lovest mankind!”
(New Year, T. 2)—O Creator of he universe,/ You appointed times by Your own power./ Bless the crown of this year with Your goodness, O Lord./ Preserve in safety Your rulers and Your cities;/ and through the intercessions of the Theotokos, save us!
(St. Simeon, T. 1)—You were a pillar of patient endurance,/ having initiated the forefathers, O venerable one:/ Job in suffering and Joseph in temptations./ You lived like the bodiless ones while yet in the flesh, O Simeon, our father./ Beseech Christ God that our souls may be saved.
KONTAKIA, (T. 1)-- As God, Thou didst rise from the tomb in glory,/ raising the world with Thyself./ Human nature praises Thee as God for death has vanishes./ Adam exults, O Master!/ Eve rejoices, for she is freed from bondage and cries to Thee:/ “Thou art the Giver of Resurrection to all, O Christ!”
Glory…(St. Simeon, T. 2)—Seeking the things of the highest,/ and having made your pillar a fiery chariot you here joined to the heights./ Therefore you have become a companion to the angels, O Venerable Simeon,/ and with them you are praying incessantly to Christ God for us all.
Now and ever…(New Year, T. 4)-- O Creator and Master of time and the ages,/ Triune and merciful God of all,/ grant blessings for the course of this year,/ and in your boundless mercy save those who worship you and cry out in fear:/ O Savior, grant blessings to all mankind!”
PROKEIMENON (New Year,T. 3, Ps. 146)—Great is Our Lord and abundant in power;/ His understanding is beyond measure.
EPISTLE: I Timothy 2:1-7; I Cor. 4:9-16;
ALLELUIA (New Year, T. 4, Ps. 64)—To Thee, O God, is due a song in Zion, and prayers shall be lifted up to Thee in Jerusalem.
GOSPEL: Luke 4:16-22; Matthew 17:14-23
KOINONIKON, (Ps. 64 & 112)—Thou shalt crown the year with Thy bounty. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance; he shall not fear evil tidings Alleluia!
Monday, 9/2—Martyrs.Mammas and his parents Theodotus and Rufina. St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople.
II Cor. 2:4-15 Matt. 23:13-22
Tuesday, 9/3—Martyrs Anthimos, Bishop of Nikomedia, and his companions. St. Phoebe the Deaconess.
II Cor. 2:14-3:3 Matt. 23:23-28
Wednesday, 9/4—Martyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch, and his companions. Holy Prophet Moses.
II Cor. 3:4-11 Matt. 23:29-39
Thursday, 9:5—Holy Righteous Zachariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist.
II Cor. 4:1-6 Matt. 24:13-28
Friday, 9/6—Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Michael at Colossae.
II Cor. 4:13-18 Matt. 24:37-33. 42-51
Saturday, 9/7—Saturday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Prefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Martyr Sozon of Cilicia. Apostles Euodias and Onesiphoros of the 70.
I COr. 2:6-9 (Cross) Matt. 10:37-11:1
I Cor. 2:6-9 Matt. 18:3-12
Sunday, 9/8—11th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 2. .THE NATIVITY OF THE THEOTOKOS. Sunday Before he Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Vespers: Genesis 28:10-17; Ezekiel 43:27-44:4; Proverbs 9:1-11.
Gal. 6:11-18 (Cross) John 3:13-17
I Cor. 9:2-12 Matt.18:23-35
Phil. 2:5-11 (Theotokos) Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28
We welcome guests and visitors to St. Catherine’s, and we thank God you are able to be with us today. Please join us in the hall for refreshments and fellowship, and please sign the guest book on the candle stand in the rear of church before you leave—please include your email address to receive our calendar, newsletter and other news of the parish. We pray God brings you to us again soon and often.
It’s now time for our one big fundraiser in the year, Boonesboro Days, September 7-8 at Shafer Park in downtown Boonesboro. Sign-up sheets. If you haven’t already signed up, check the times and the tasks posted in the parish hall and sent out on our email list and sign up for what you can do! We need the help of the whole St. Catherine’s community. Please sign on and join us!
Next Sunday is the great feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Vespers are Saturday at 6:30, as usual. Divine Liturgy this Sunday is at 9 AM to enable those who need to open the booth in Boonesboro to attend. The following week, Saturday is he fest of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Vespers Friday the 13th is at 7:30 PM; Divine Liturgy Saturday the 14th is at 10 AM.
The next instruction class plus the meeting that was originally scheduled yesterday for the new class, TBA.
Church School begins following Liturgy Sunday, 9/15, with the blessing of the students and teachers. From there, they will go with their teachers for a get-acquainted session and whatever activities may be planned for that day.
I do not know where the church cleaning rotation is at this point, given the recent changes in the rotation. Andrew Podolak is scheduled to read today; Paul Koch is up next week We are in need for volunteers, especially for church cleaning, and we are open to starting other needed tasks, such as coffee hour clean-up. Anyone who would like to join any of the task rotations contact Fr. Dennis.
Among the departed, we pray for the repose of the soul of His Grace, Bishop Matthias of Chicago, Lisa Thompson who had been suffering from cancer for a long time. the mother-in-law of Hope Ciobanita, Catinca; Larisa Bulgakova’s son-in-law, Sergei; John Outen’s uncle Roy, daughter’s father-in-law, Charles; the brother-in-law of Gabriella Fedeles-Muller, Gheorghe; the mother of Olga Tolskaya-Talbot, Ina; those who have perished in war, persecution or terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine; and from storms, flood, fire, earthquake and disease here and elsewhere. May their memory be eternal!
Please remember in your prayers for the living Hope Ciobanita’s daughter Madelena; Vicki Hughes with heart difficulties; our former member June Aleshin, wife of +Gene, in hospice care; Liviu Achim’s mother, Ileana, recovering from surgery; Alison Cloonan, with injuries in a car accident; Joy Chaney, recovering from a stroke; the grandson of Dennis and Marlene Powell, Jack, with severe heart problems; Archbishops Benjamin of the West and Nathaniel of Detroit; Fr. Paul Harrilchak of Holy Trinity Church, Ashburn, VA, recovering from brain surgery, the mother of John Outen, Mary and the sister of Daria Riegler and Dennis Holovach, Zina, all recovering from surgery; Maria Salcutan, mother of Oleg; Mary Riztich, severely developmentally disabled, and her mother Angela; the uncle of Eva Koenig’s husband Dan, Herb, recovering from a broken hip; Marian Lutai, Vicki Hughes and Kate White, with cancer; the wife of Paul Koch, Karen, with heart, lung and kidney trouble; Sophia Klein, Cyprian Lutai Sr., Valentina Barbuta, those who suffer from war, persecution and terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine, and from storms, floods, fire, earthquake and disease here and elsewhere.
Fr. Dennis is grateful for your thoughts, prayers and patience as he recovers from COVID. If I am not with you today, I pray to be able to return ASAP. FYI—I’ve been feeling fine, by your prayers.
St. Catherine Orthodox Church
433 Liberty St.
Hagerstown, MD 21740
240-347-2333
www.saintcatherineorthodoxchurch.org
Schedule: Pastor:
Saturday, 6:30 PM—Vespers V. Rev. Dennis Buck
Sunday, 10 AM—Divine Liturgy 825 Harrington Rd.
11:30 AM—Church School Rockville, MD 20852
Confessions Saturday evening or by appointment h) 301-424-7730; c) 202-878-2854
Festal: Sunday, 9 AM—Divine Liturgy [email protected]
Friday, 7:30 PM—Vespers
Saturday, 9/14—Divine Liturgy
Today is 10th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 1. Church New Year. Today we also commemorate St. Simeon the Stylite and his mother, Martha.
TROPARIA (T. 1)-- When the stone had been sealed by the Jews,/ while the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure Body,/ Thou didst rise on the third day, O Savior,/ granting Life to the world./ The powers of heaven therefore cried to Thee, O Giver of Life,/ “Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ!/ Glory to Thy Kingdom!/ Glory to Thy dispensation, O Thou Who lovest mankind!”
(New Year, T. 2)—O Creator of he universe,/ You appointed times by Your own power./ Bless the crown of this year with Your goodness, O Lord./ Preserve in safety Your rulers and Your cities;/ and through the intercessions of the Theotokos, save us!
(St. Simeon, T. 1)—You were a pillar of patient endurance,/ having initiated the forefathers, O venerable one:/ Job in suffering and Joseph in temptations./ You lived like the bodiless ones while yet in the flesh, O Simeon, our father./ Beseech Christ God that our souls may be saved.
KONTAKIA, (T. 1)-- As God, Thou didst rise from the tomb in glory,/ raising the world with Thyself./ Human nature praises Thee as God for death has vanishes./ Adam exults, O Master!/ Eve rejoices, for she is freed from bondage and cries to Thee:/ “Thou art the Giver of Resurrection to all, O Christ!”
Glory…(St. Simeon, T. 2)—Seeking the things of the highest,/ and having made your pillar a fiery chariot you here joined to the heights./ Therefore you have become a companion to the angels, O Venerable Simeon,/ and with them you are praying incessantly to Christ God for us all.
Now and ever…(New Year, T. 4)-- O Creator and Master of time and the ages,/ Triune and merciful God of all,/ grant blessings for the course of this year,/ and in your boundless mercy save those who worship you and cry out in fear:/ O Savior, grant blessings to all mankind!”
PROKEIMENON (New Year,T. 3, Ps. 146)—Great is Our Lord and abundant in power;/ His understanding is beyond measure.
- Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God.
EPISTLE: I Timothy 2:1-7; I Cor. 4:9-16;
ALLELUIA (New Year, T. 4, Ps. 64)—To Thee, O God, is due a song in Zion, and prayers shall be lifted up to Thee in Jerusalem.
- Thou shalt bless the crown of the year with Thy bounties.
GOSPEL: Luke 4:16-22; Matthew 17:14-23
KOINONIKON, (Ps. 64 & 112)—Thou shalt crown the year with Thy bounty. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance; he shall not fear evil tidings Alleluia!
Monday, 9/2—Martyrs.Mammas and his parents Theodotus and Rufina. St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople.
II Cor. 2:4-15 Matt. 23:13-22
Tuesday, 9/3—Martyrs Anthimos, Bishop of Nikomedia, and his companions. St. Phoebe the Deaconess.
II Cor. 2:14-3:3 Matt. 23:23-28
Wednesday, 9/4—Martyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch, and his companions. Holy Prophet Moses.
II Cor. 3:4-11 Matt. 23:29-39
Thursday, 9:5—Holy Righteous Zachariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist.
II Cor. 4:1-6 Matt. 24:13-28
Friday, 9/6—Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Michael at Colossae.
II Cor. 4:13-18 Matt. 24:37-33. 42-51
Saturday, 9/7—Saturday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Prefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Martyr Sozon of Cilicia. Apostles Euodias and Onesiphoros of the 70.
I COr. 2:6-9 (Cross) Matt. 10:37-11:1
I Cor. 2:6-9 Matt. 18:3-12
Sunday, 9/8—11th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 2. .THE NATIVITY OF THE THEOTOKOS. Sunday Before he Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Vespers: Genesis 28:10-17; Ezekiel 43:27-44:4; Proverbs 9:1-11.
Gal. 6:11-18 (Cross) John 3:13-17
I Cor. 9:2-12 Matt.18:23-35
Phil. 2:5-11 (Theotokos) Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28
We welcome guests and visitors to St. Catherine’s, and we thank God you are able to be with us today. Please join us in the hall for refreshments and fellowship, and please sign the guest book on the candle stand in the rear of church before you leave—please include your email address to receive our calendar, newsletter and other news of the parish. We pray God brings you to us again soon and often.
It’s now time for our one big fundraiser in the year, Boonesboro Days, September 7-8 at Shafer Park in downtown Boonesboro. Sign-up sheets. If you haven’t already signed up, check the times and the tasks posted in the parish hall and sent out on our email list and sign up for what you can do! We need the help of the whole St. Catherine’s community. Please sign on and join us!
Next Sunday is the great feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Mary, the Mother of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Vespers are Saturday at 6:30, as usual. Divine Liturgy this Sunday is at 9 AM to enable those who need to open the booth in Boonesboro to attend. The following week, Saturday is he fest of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Vespers Friday the 13th is at 7:30 PM; Divine Liturgy Saturday the 14th is at 10 AM.
The next instruction class plus the meeting that was originally scheduled yesterday for the new class, TBA.
Church School begins following Liturgy Sunday, 9/15, with the blessing of the students and teachers. From there, they will go with their teachers for a get-acquainted session and whatever activities may be planned for that day.
I do not know where the church cleaning rotation is at this point, given the recent changes in the rotation. Andrew Podolak is scheduled to read today; Paul Koch is up next week We are in need for volunteers, especially for church cleaning, and we are open to starting other needed tasks, such as coffee hour clean-up. Anyone who would like to join any of the task rotations contact Fr. Dennis.
Among the departed, we pray for the repose of the soul of His Grace, Bishop Matthias of Chicago, Lisa Thompson who had been suffering from cancer for a long time. the mother-in-law of Hope Ciobanita, Catinca; Larisa Bulgakova’s son-in-law, Sergei; John Outen’s uncle Roy, daughter’s father-in-law, Charles; the brother-in-law of Gabriella Fedeles-Muller, Gheorghe; the mother of Olga Tolskaya-Talbot, Ina; those who have perished in war, persecution or terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine; and from storms, flood, fire, earthquake and disease here and elsewhere. May their memory be eternal!
Please remember in your prayers for the living Hope Ciobanita’s daughter Madelena; Vicki Hughes with heart difficulties; our former member June Aleshin, wife of +Gene, in hospice care; Liviu Achim’s mother, Ileana, recovering from surgery; Alison Cloonan, with injuries in a car accident; Joy Chaney, recovering from a stroke; the grandson of Dennis and Marlene Powell, Jack, with severe heart problems; Archbishops Benjamin of the West and Nathaniel of Detroit; Fr. Paul Harrilchak of Holy Trinity Church, Ashburn, VA, recovering from brain surgery, the mother of John Outen, Mary and the sister of Daria Riegler and Dennis Holovach, Zina, all recovering from surgery; Maria Salcutan, mother of Oleg; Mary Riztich, severely developmentally disabled, and her mother Angela; the uncle of Eva Koenig’s husband Dan, Herb, recovering from a broken hip; Marian Lutai, Vicki Hughes and Kate White, with cancer; the wife of Paul Koch, Karen, with heart, lung and kidney trouble; Sophia Klein, Cyprian Lutai Sr., Valentina Barbuta, those who suffer from war, persecution and terrorism in the Middle East, Ukraine, and from storms, floods, fire, earthquake and disease here and elsewhere.
Fr. Dennis is grateful for your thoughts, prayers and patience as he recovers from COVID. If I am not with you today, I pray to be able to return ASAP. FYI—I’ve been feeling fine, by your prayers.